On this day: February 15

  1. 1976
    Victim Mark Stebbins · Oakland County Child Killer

    A seventh grader at Lincoln Junior High School in Ferndale.

  2. 1978
    Arrest Final arrest, Pensacola · Ted Bundy

    Pensacola police officer David Lee stopped Bundy, who was driving a stolen Volkswagen, and arrested him after a struggle. He was one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives at the time.

  3. 1994
    Court / trial Alachua County court, Gainesville · Danny Rolling

    Rolling pleaded guilty as his trial began on February 15, 1994. After a penalty phase, Judge Stan R. Morris sentenced him to death on April 20, 1994.

  4. 2019
    Arrest Auburn, Maine · Steven Downs

    After a genealogist matched the crime-scene DNA to a relative of Downs in a public database, and a DNA test confirmed it, Downs was arrested in Auburn, Maine, and brought to Alaska for trial.